James Bond 007
The Saint And The Fiction Makers.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1970. [Crime Fiction] FIRST UK HARDBACK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.189; [3], blank. Publisher's mid-blue cloth hardcovers blocked in gilt to spine, in a cheesy 'Pop-Art' dust-wrapper priced 21s / £1.05. Some spotting/toning to edges and endpapers, jacket also lightly foxed. Very good. One..... More
Passage of Arms.
London: Heinemann, 1959. [Gun-running thriller] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.250. Publisher's hardback black cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket priced at 16s. With author's ink note to flyleaf; Thank you, thank you. / Eric Ambler / Jan' 1965. Spine edges and extremities toned else near fine..... More
The Holy Places.
London: The Queen Anne Press. November 1952. [Travel] LIMITED EDITION, designed by Robert Harling, with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. No.263 of 950 copies. Large Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.37; [5], printed on cream wove paper. Original red Buckram with gilt titles, and gilt 'QA' monogram to upper board, top..... More
Loxfinger. A Thrilling Adventure of Hebrew Secret agent Oy-Oy-7.
New York, NY: Pocket Books, 1965. [James Bond pastiche] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.127; [1], blank. Publisher's colour softcovers with original price $1.00. A very good, used copy. The first of four novels featuring Israel Bond. More
The Impossible Art of Golf. An Anthology of Golf Writing.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. [Golfing omnibus] FIRST EDITION, with full strike-line. Large octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.321; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth in photographic dust-wrapper. Fine / as new. Includes 'Bond v Goldfinger' being the famous showdown on the golf course between 007 and Auric Goldfinger, from Ian Fleming's..... More
The Diamond Smugglers.
London: Ian Fleming Publications Limited, 2009. [True Crime] FIRST EDITION THUS, SIGNED COPY. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.116. Autographed by Fergus Fleming in black ink to the title page, in our presence. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket, priced at £15. A fine /..... More
My Old Man's A Dustman.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1956. [Modern fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.187; [1], blank. Black hardback cloth binding lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 10/6. No inscriptions. Some spotting, endpapers browned else near fine. Author Wolf Mankowitz introduced Cubby Broccoli to Harry Saltzman, who formed Eon..... More
A James Bond Omnibus Volume 1 [together with] A James Bond Omnibus Volume 2. Containing From Russia With Love, Doctor No, Goldfinger, Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and You Only Live Twice.
New York: MJF Books, 1997. [Spy thrillers] FIRST EDITIONS THUS. Two volumes, octavo (22 x 15cm) pp.318, pp.256. Publisher's quarter black vinyl over paper-covered boards, dust-jackets with typographical design. No ink names or inscriptions. A gently used set with some minor bumping/pushing to extremities, jackets lightly creased. Very good indeed..... More
The Man With The Golden Gun.
New York, NY: New American Library, 1965. [Spy thriller] FIRST American book club edition, Binding 'B', bibliographer's copy. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.121. Publisher's black vinyl with yellow trim, revolver gun blocked in gilt to spine, olive green endpapers, top edge coloured yellow, fore-edge untrimmed. With the typographic dust-jacket. Contents..... More
Goldfinger.
New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Co. [Book Club], no date [circa 1970]. [James Bond] US BOOK CLUB EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 214. Publisher's grey paper-covered boards with blue titles to spine. With the pictorial blue dust-jacket. Whole lower edge of book tinted purple (other copies are similarly noted..... More
[contribute to] The Story of James Bond. A Tribute to Ian Fleming.
[London] 2008. An illustrated colour programe for the gala event celebrating the Ian Fleming Centenary held at the London Palladium on 5th October 2008. Pp.28, magazine format, illustrated. A fine copy. Includes an extract text 'From Russia With love (1957), articles from Lucy Fleming & Kate Grimond (Ian Fleming's nieces)..... More
The Achilles Affair.
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1959. [Adventure Thriller] FIRST US EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY with superb, lengthy inscription signed by the author. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Publisher's hardcovers, illustrated duct-wrapper priced at $3.50, with promotional wraparound band with supporting quote by Erle Stanley Gardner. Inscription reads; To Tony and..... More
A Twist of Sand.
London: Collins, 1959. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, third printing. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.320. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, Bookseller ticket (Johannesburg) to pastedown. Autographed and dated in blue ink to the title page. A very good copy, cloth has some local sunning where a...... More
Passage of Arms.
London: Heinemann, 1959. [Gun-running thriller] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.228. Publisher's salmon pink hardback cloth binding blocked in red and gilt, in two pictorial dust-jackets priced $3.95- one of which was supposedly a trial jacket and not issued, but in reality very many copies came with the..... More
How to Play Your Best Golf All The Time.
New York: Simon and Schuster 1953. [Sport] FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 152. Illustrated by Lealand Gustavson. Printed in red and black throughout. Publisher's hardcovers blocked in silver, pictorial dust-jacket priced at $2.95. A near fine copy of the book, in a very good wrapper, shipped..... More
Red Eagle. The Story of the Russian Revolution and of Klementy Efremovitch Voroshilov, Marshal and Commissar for Defence of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
London: Hutchinson, 1937. [Military History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.390 [26]. With a coloured halftone frontispiece, 16 plates (30 illustrations), and 8 maps. With author's gift note in blue ink to the title page: 'For / Percy Muir / With the best of / good wishes /..... More
Twentieth-Century British Book Collectors and Bibliographers. Dictionary of Literary Biography Volume 201.
Detroit, Washington DC, London: A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, Gale Research, 1999. FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp.393 [21]. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's pale blue cloth covers blocked in navy and gilt. A clean, fine copy. Uncommon to find a privately-owned copy as most went to libraries. Includes a lengthy portrait of Ian..... More
Celebrity Cooking. Foreword by A. Dickson Wright.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1967. [Cookery anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.240. With vignette illustrations within the text. Publisher's black cloth hardcovers in photographic dust-jacket priced 18s. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Jacket worn, with some chips and tears. Overall very good. Despite faults this is a scarce book in..... More
Contributes to 'The Concise Encyclopedia of Crime And Criminals'. Edited by Sir Harold Scott [two copies].
London: Andre Deutsch, 1961. [History] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.351; [1], blank. Title page printed in two colours. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Publisher's hardback grey cloth blocked in red to backstrip, top edge green, photographic endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 50s. [Together with] Book Club edition published by..... More
The Seven Deadly Sins. With a Special Foreword by Ian Fleming, introduced by Raymond Mortimer.
New York: William Morrow and Company (Printed and Bound in Great Britain), 1962. [Morality Essays] FIRST US EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, bibliographer's copy. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 87. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket, priced $3.50s. UK sheets in the US (Morrow) binding, with Morrow..... More
The Diamond Smugglers.
New York, NY: Collier Books, 1964. [True Crime/Documentary] FIRST AMERICAN PAPERBACK PRINTING. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.124; [4], advertisement. With black and white photographic plates. Publisher's softcovers priced at 95c. A near fine copy with some mild wear and sunning to spine, date stamp (1964) to lower edge. Gilbert A15b..... More
The James Bond Dossier.
New York, NY: Signet Books, 1966. [Bond reference /critique] FIRST U.S. PAPERBACK. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.127 [1], advertisement. Publisher's illustrated softcovers priced at 60c, all edges red. Owner's rubber stamp to margin, cheap paper stock toned as expected else a clean, fine copy. Now a rather elusive paperback, published..... More
The Book Of Bond, Or Every Man His Own 007 (Writing as Bill Tanner).
New York: Viking, 1965. [Bondiana] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (18 x 14cm), pp.111 [5]. Publisher's white glossy hardcovers, red endpapers. Illustrated throughout. With Raymond Hawkey-designed book-jacket priced at $2.50. Discreet initials to flyleaf, light soil to covers and jacket; near fine. An unusual piece of Bondiana. Bill Tanner is a...... More
The World is Not Enough.
London: Coronet Books, 1999. [Movie novelisation] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.200; [2], publisher's advertisements. Softcovers priced at £5.99 to rear. Fine/as new with no toning, no marking. A pristine copy. Novelisation of the nineteenth Bond film, which was released in cinemas in late 1999. Hubin; Crime Fiction..... More
The Diamond Smugglers.
New York: Dell Publishing, 1965. [True Crime/Documentary] FIRST DELL PRINTING. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.159; [1], advertisements. Publisher's softcovers, all edges tinted green. Gentle reading crease to spine else a fine, fresh copy. An interesting edition; boldly advertised as the 'First Popular-Priced Edition', rather than the first paperback edition (which..... More